Each day I read a variety of different blogs and the three listed below are my favourites. We should all take the below authors as examples to improve our own blogging and spend time appreciating the work they produce. Perhaps follow their blogs online and leave them a comment.   Nightmare Pixel Kyle Mullan tells stories designed to provoke, push social boundaries and to enchant readers down a path... 

I’m 21 years old yet I have been blogging in various forms over the last 6 years. Before 2005 I had no idea how blogging would have shaped my life. Now 6 years on I reminisce on what I have learnt and if I would have changed anything. Comments are Gold and Dust It is much easier to forget positive feedback than the negative. Negative comments build like dust and unless you brush them away it is... 

Research Begins... With the hustle of contracted work it is rare that I find myself in a delightfully sunny garden with little weight upon my shoulders. Yet as I sit here now wearing my *oh so wondrously cool* sunglasses I have taken the chance to begin considering the first stages of my dissertation. Once back at University in September one of my main tasks will be to write my Public Relations dissertation... 

Wired Magazine made a fantastic point concerning online privacy in their February issue by uniquely constructing front covers containing personal details aimed at some of their readers. Channel 4’s Benjamin Cohen was one of their targets.   Funny Facebook Update (Bit Rude!) Social Networks sit on a foundation of our personal data. Your very essence and life experiences are a currency which Wired... 

How does your behaviour change when you’re on the internet? This is a question which has existed in my mind for some time. A tend to agree with @AnneBillson that many people online rarely read past the first paragraph of an article, occasionally I am one of those people. The digital world is high speed, far away from slow paper, it causes our brains to process faster. Generation Y is the speed... 

World Book Night 2011 has begun. The event was inspired after the success of World Book Day, an event where thousands of school children in the UK and Ireland receive book tokens. My copy of the book below is one of 40,000 copies of the 25 titles which have been printed for World Book Night 2011. Do the maths and it will reveal that 1,000,000 books are being shared this year between friends, family,... 

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977 Now it’s your turn. Do your very own handwritten blog post  Read More →

Inspiration comes in many forms. As part of my blogging in 2011 I shall be covering one of my heroes each month. This month I look at Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Hitchens forms an icon so large in influence that I find it difficult to understand how anybody will fill his shoes after he departs. For the majority of his life the media spotlight has been upon him and at the same time he is that... 

Many occasions it has been suggested to me that this blog would be better equipped for growing a certain kind of audience if I were to focus this online publication on one particular subject. It is the easiest way to focus on growing an audience; for me to only write about Public Relations all the time. Instead I am going to hand over the question to you… What do you want to see me write about in... 

Thanks to Mr @benarmham of Twitter, although I also happen to know this fellow in the real world, I was at Farnham University last weekend. I thought the University of Gloucestershire was small. Farnham is on a different level of miniscule but is also coupled with a community which is noticeably strong from the outset. Perhaps rather niche as well due to the abundant of creative courses. One particular... 

Pretentious, boring, arrogant – these are just some of things I have been called over the last week by completely different people. None of these people know me in real life. Beyond the pixels on this page they have never sat down and had a drink with me, joined in with the crazier part of my social life or at least been constructive with their criticisms. Blogging for me is just about writing. Yes,... 

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on growing the traffic on my blog. This is my piece of advice for how to promote your blog online. 1. Get involved with Twitter and share your posts. Remember that this is a platform for conversation – get engaged. 2. Share all your posts through Facebook. Sometimes using a third party application like NetworkedBlogs can be good way to automate this...